Skadi speaks! To the wrong crowd, unfortunately.

It's 2 in th morning and Skadi is finally up! I work nights and start checking Dumm for new strips starting at midnight! I love Skadi and have been looking forward to the conclusion of her first multi-part adventure! I must had checked this place eight or nine times before you guys got it up!

At last I've got my fix! Ha, ha, ha! New Skadi! Ha, Ha! New Diseasoid! Ha, ha, ha! New strip! (more deranged laughter) Oh Skadi why must you only come once a week? Why do your creators feel the need to waste time with earning a living and having a life, when they could be making more new strips? Why can't I get new Skadi four times a day? Five times? Six? Why must new Skadi be so rare? After all, without Skadi life has no meaning (Except on Thursdays when I get new 1930 Nitemare Theater).

Omigosh!

I just realized!

I'll have to wait a whole nother week for more new Skadi ... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO(and off into infinity)

Haha, great pay off!

Who were the guys on the front page when it said "who are these guys"???

Who were the guys on the front page when it said "who are these guys"???

Who were the guys on the front page when it said "who are these guys"???

Rofl... son of a... I somehow posted that three times. Anyway... GREAT COMIC!!! Very nice twist/punchline!

Skadi speaks! Hooray :D

and I'm glad to see that someone besides me has her name on her undies! I am so proud

the title is tiny but in an important place! bravo Katie and Lewk!!!!!! congrats on an amazing comic

One of the things I have noticed in this strip from day one is the very wise placement of the title. Today´s strip is no exception. An almost negligible "Skaadi", when cleverly placed on our heroine´s bottom becomes clearly visible and impossible to miss. That´s sense of good design for you.
Skaadi´s partner (whose name I never remember)acts in this saga (so to speak) as the perfect speechless partner. In this story) he is almost dispensable regarding story-line´s facts, but still we would miss him if he was not there.
The cult gang is simply wonderful. I really like that kind of Middle Age´s Hell´s Angel in the centre holding an axe.
By the way, it was great to see a "The End" at the idem of the story. I hope the auto-conclusive episodes come back (if they don´t, I´m sure I´ll still like this comic anyway). Congratulations, Katie and Luke, you´re doing a great job.

ah,how i love happy endings. :D

Her little hair flip in panel 2 looks almost like another pleading hand reaching out for payment. Love it!

And ditto what everyone said about the title!

SHE SPEAKS!
HUMAN WORDS!
OH MY GOD!
And I lol'ed at the detail on her ass, and the name tag, nice comic!

We waited four weeks for this? And it took two people?

And she speaks! Next, we need her to wrestle another girl villain and they end up using each other's clothes to beat each other off.

- trevor.

Paul, Paul, Paul... love the journey - don't agonize over it. It could take 50 weeks and I'd still be thanking Katie and Luke for sharing every panel of their genius. It is truly a treat.

And so, Paul, I advise you to check out the "Cyanide and Happiness" daily strip if you aren't getting your fill of punchlines and quick humor.

Dig that header panel. Skadi eats my

I bested this dragon! Best line ever! Also the undies rule.

Th expressions on Skadi and Deseasoid are brilliant, I just want to rip their faces off and eat them!

OMG She talks! A very surprising first in this comic.

Silly Skadi. That's why you visit the town *first*, to receive the quest.

...sometimes someone has to say that the emperor has no clothes. No one's work improves via sycophantic praise.

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism.

No one's work improves without specific critisism, either. Straight-up dissing somebody doesn't explain what you did and didn't like.

C'mon Jake; go read the comments on every strip in this series - heck, every strip on this site. If you find more than a half-dozen "specific criticism" posts, I'll buy you lunch. It's a love-fest around here. Specific criticism would have earned me nothing but scorn - which seems to be what's happening anyway.

My first comment makes it pretty clear what my critique is. Tillie got it; I'm sorry if you didn't.

1. Toast: Hah. I hadn't even realized that this was the first time Skadi spoke in the series. She's definitely a girl of few words.

2. Mark Morgan: Thanks for that amazing comment! It's that type of reaction that really gets us excited about creating this stuff. We'd make one everyday if only it weren't for that earning a living and having a life crap.

4,5,6,7. Andy: The "who are these guys" guys are the Dragon Cult members that chase Skadi at the end.

10. RNE: Rejoice! The multi-episodic Skadis are at an end for a least a month or two. Also, thanks for noticing the very wise placement of the title. Although, it's getting more and more difficult to find new and interesting places to write "Skadi" as the months go by.

12. Tillie: Funny observation about Skadi's hair. It gives me an idea for a comic, too!

14. Paul: I'm always interested in hearing criticism, and the comment section is an appropriate place to vent it. Of course, it's also fun to read the criticism of your criticism. :) Truth be told, the "Beyond Here Be Dragons" series was a bit of a patch work piece, and wasn't exactly planned to be a series from the outset. I like how it came out, but our next episodic Skadi comic will probably be more planned and thus have a more satisfying and conclusive ending.

Tillie and Jake, thanks for the defense, though. :)

21. Carl: Haha, yeah...Skadi is a total newb!

-Luke

For Paul- Constructive critisism: "I didn't like the ending because ________ and ________, you should try ________ or maybe_________."
There's a difference between that, and being just plain insulting and rude.

Thanks everyone!!

I'm with Luke, constructive criticism is alright with me. Personally I'm really happy with how me and Luke's first comic is turning out to be- I think its very representative of our humor and styles. But I do think as we get the hang of doing comics we'll get better...but don't expect Skadi to change in style too much. It can't be everyone's cup of tea. :)

-Katie

...I guess we're not meeting for lunch?

I did enjoy the irony in your last post though.

I'm pretty sure Tillie wasn't agreeing with you, Paul. She was saying constructive criticism is useful. Your criticism, however, was neither constructive or particularly useful. More like the lousy comments you get on the troll fest that is youtube.

And your reason for not giving specific crits is because nobody else does? What if everyone else like the strips? No one else acts like a jerk either, but that didn't stop you.

And yes, I realize the irony in the end of my post as well. It was intended to offend. Still feel like lunch?

This comic has in such a short time become like crack for me. Thanks for sharing! And... I have no criticism at all for someone going out on a limb to publish such a different style and entertain. Very successful IMHO.

I do, I kept up with this 4 part series over the month, and I have to say it ended with a sizzle. A lot of build up with little payoff. But that's just my opinion.

I love this comic, but I noticed a flaw. When Skadi runs away her pose is off, her arms should be counter posed to her legs, if this was animated it would probably be more obvious. Can't wait for the new installments!